Help for Mara

Please read Mara's story below

"Hi my name Is Mara Im 24 Polish girl and up to few months ago I believed that I had a good future ahed of me. I moved to Australia 2 years ago with my Fiance to start a new life. And thats when the things have changed rapidly. As soon as I was put on my Fiances visa he became very abusive and controlling knowing that I have no one to turn to for help he was able to get away with this. But after a year of constant abuse I finally got tired of this knowing that he will not change I finally got enough courage to leave him. As a vengeance he have cancelled my visa and cleared my bank account knowing that if I want be able to pay for flights out of a country I will get deported. I managed to save some money that I had in separate account and hire a migration agent to help me appeal to my visa cancellation. Unfortunately the decision was not overturned. So now my only option that will save me from deportation Is to enrol in to School and swap to student visa, but I can not afford the tuition. I have tryed to find a job for past 3 for months but no one will hire me without a visa. At the moment Im sleeping on my friends couch as I cant afford rent and bills anymore and Im forced to eat instant noodles as this is all I can afford to eat. This situation and the constant stress and fear of whats going to happen to me has taken his turn on my physical and mental health. I was recently admitted to psychiatric unit after a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with severe depression. I have hit a rock bottom and I have lost all hope that anything good will ever happen to me and I lost the will power to live my life. So Im begging you please give me my hope back, give me a reason to believe that things will get better. Im begging you to help me. Any donation will mean so much to me and I could never be able to thank you enough for your help. Please help me start a new life Im desperate."

Write or donate to Mara here: maraka309@gmail.com

Family torn apart by broken immigratio​n laws

Here is a sad story presented by the wife of a deported business man. Find a way to give a hand to this woman. "Hello. I was a single mom struggling for 7 years, when I met the love of my life. He is from Ireland, and we married about 9 months after we met. He has been a father and friend to my children and stabilized us financially by opening a business. We filed our immigration paperwork in May of 2012, not realizing there would be any problems because we had been married for a good while. My husband's business partner, who we just found out is a convicted felon and has active warrants and tax liens, reported my husband to ICE this year when we started to file the business taxes. He told them exactly where my husband would be and pulled him over, taking him and my son out of the vehicle by gunpoint. They detained my husband for 3 weeks and promptly deported him without even giving us a hearing. We paid thousands of dollars for our paperwork, and are still waiting for our immigration interview. Since he was detained, the business partner has stolen everything. The company vehicles, the monies that were due, which my husband worked for. My son also worked there, and has been denied his wages owed. We are completely broke, other than my paycheck which is 450 per week. We have zero rent money, that is what my husband paid and now thousands of dollars in legal fees we had to pay to attempt to get a stay of deportation. We had cooperation from our State Senator and ICE denied our stay that was based on our hardship.

I also was born with bullous emphysema, and my husband was the primary breadwinner. Now I cannot even get my medication. Our only options are to sell everything and temporarily relocate to Ireland, where there is no employment available..In order to do that we need a large amount of money. I have spent the last 7 years making sure I never had a late payment on any credit cards or car payments. I just paid my car off in December of 2012. This was supposed to be the year we could actually start saving for a real future. Simply because one man doesn't want to face up to his criminal issues, we have lost everything.

We have tried to go to the police with all of this, but it is a civil issue and one to which I have no means to fight for. So we have to pick what is more important ...our family being together or fighting a man who would stoop to such a low level to destroy a family that he might have financial gain.

I am looking for any help I can get. My husband is extremely dyslexic and can read at the level of a seven year old, but is a brilliant business man. His family in Ireland, however did not deal with his learning disability, as his mother died when he was only 7, and therefore he has no more than a 7th grade education. This makes it extremely difficult to get employment outside of working for himself.

He is a very good man. My children are half-Jamaican and their own father doesn't help. Before we met, a lot of men wanted to go out with me, but once they found out my children were of mixed race, they would gracefully bow out. This man came to this country with nothing and has done more for my kids than their own father. That to me is a good man. He has helped several other people start successful small businesses in the short time he was here. This is the problem with our immigration laws, the real bad people never get deported, but the people who document themselves and try to play by the rules are being targeted because they are an easy catch.

Please consider my cause and need to ask for financial help. I have never had to do this before, and I am humbled by the experience. Thank you for taking the time to read our story.

Julieann Fields

The paypal email is voudoukitten@yahoo.com."